Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what some Democrats now consider a pathological pattern, Clinton distanced himself from an achievement he had long defended: the 1993 budget deal he sold as a valiant attempt to cut the deficit, lower interest rates and make the tax system more progressive. What looked courageous two years ago was looking costly last week when Clinton stood before a well-heeled crowd of donors in Houston. And so he abandoned text and principle and ad-libbed a confession. "Probably there are people in this room still mad at me at that budget because you think I raised your taxes too much...
...language. When millions of people in hundreds of countries all over the world turn on their computers--whether to play a video game, to write a speech or to design a car--they are greeted by an operating system that is standardized and which proscribes a very specific pattern of behavior and thinking...
...became popular in the last three years at a time when the Business School was in a holding pattern because [former Dean John H. McArthur] was waiting for his successor to be named," Clark said. "John didn't want to commit for the future without knowing who would be here...
...would deny the minister's point that the black man could use a redefinition; some might suggest a resurrection. The successful defense of a black male celebrity by a black male lawyer in Los Angeles, cheered as it was by many African Americans, was an exception to a bleak pattern. Last week the Washington-based Sentencing Project, which in 1990 broke the grim news that 1 out of every 4 black men ages 20 to 29 was in jail, paroled or on probation, delivered a chilling update: the estimate...
...particularly alarmed in February when his friend Ron Shipp, a former cop, took the stand for the prosecution. Shipp testified that he had taken L.A.P.D. classes on domestic violence and had sat down with O.J. and Nicole--at Nicole's request--to warn O.J. that he fit the pattern of an abuser. Worse, Shipp told the court he had been with Simpson the night he returned from Chicago and had listened as his friend described dreaming of killing Nicole. On cross-examination, Cochran's associate Carl Douglas attempted to bully Shipp into submission, bringing up his history of alcoholism...